DevOps Engineer - Observability & Platform Engineering - Kentan Staffing Solutions

OpenTalent; Wayne (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent is seeking a DevOps Engineer focusing on Observability and Platform Engineering. The role primarily builds and standardizes observability, tracing, logging, telemetry, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure across complex applications and services.

Ideal candidates bring strong AWS and Terraform expertise, with the ability to establish reusable observability patterns adopted by development teams. The position is fully remote with U.S. schedule alignment.

Qualifications

• Experience in DevOps/Platform/SRE in complex enterprises.
• Hands-on AWS infrastructure experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the observability and telemetry architecture across apps and cloud infra.
• Establish standards for distributed tracing, logging, monitoring, metrics, and telemetry.
• Partner with development teams to define tracing standards and end-to-end traceability.
• Create reusable observability patterns, templates, dashboards, and reporting.
• Guide engineering teams on consistent observability implementations.
• Support RCA to identify root causes and prevent recurrence.
• Design and maintain secure, scalable AWS infrastructure.
• Leverage Terraform for IaC and standardized deployment.
• Support and enhance CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Explore automation and AI-assisted development to boost speed.

Skills

DevOps

Platform Engineering

SRE

Cloud Engineering

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Job description

DevOps Engineer – Observability & Platform Engineering

Location: Fully Remote – U.S. Schedule: Full-Time | Must Work East Coast Hours Industry: Financial Services / Mortgage Technology

Position Overview

Our client is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer – Observability & Platform Engineering to join a Platform Foundation team supporting a large-scale technology transformation. This role will focus heavily on building and standardizing observability, tracing, logging, telemetry, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure practices across complex applications and services.

This is not simply a pipeline-building DevOps role. Approximately 80% of the focus will be on observability, platform standards, and CI/CD enablement , with roughly 20% focused on directly building pipelines and infrastructure . The ideal candidate will bring strong AWS and Terraform expertise and have experience establishing reusable observability patterns that development teams can consistently adopt.

Key Responsibilities

• Help design and implement the organization's observability and telemetry architecture across applications, services, and cloud infrastructure.


• Establish standards and best practices for distributed tracing, logging, monitoring, metrics, and telemetry .


• Partner directly with development teams to define tracing standards and ensure requests can be followed end-to-end across multiple services .


• Create reusable observability patterns, libraries, templates, shared dashboards, and reporting standards.


• Provide guidance to engineering teams on implementing observability consistently across complex systems.


• Support root cause analysis (RCA) by helping teams identify where failures originated, why they occurred, and how similar issues can be prevented.


• Design and maintain secure, reliable, and scalable AWS infrastructure .


• Leverage Terraform for Infrastructure as Code and standardized infrastructure deployment.


• Support and enhance CI/CD pipelines , automation, and development workflows.


• Identify opportunities to use automation and AI-assisted development practices to improve engineering speed and operational efficiency.


• Work closely with architecture and platform teams while embedding with application development teams when needed.


• Help establish logging and tracing guidelines that can be adopted across the broader engineering organization.


• Ensure observability and telemetry solutions meet appropriate security, reliability, and regulatory requirements .


• Support observability for applications incorporating AI agents and AI-enabled solutions .

Required Qualifications

• Strong DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, or Cloud Engineering experience within complex enterprise environments.


• Deep hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and services .